Dr. Vijay John was a Research Scientist at RIKEN in Seika, Kyoto, specializing in multimodal sensor fusion, robotic caregivers, autonomous driving, computer vision, and machine learning within the Guardian Robot Project since September 2021. He was also an external faculty at SSN and REC, Chennai. He earned a PhD from the University of Dundee, an MS from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BE from SSN College of Engineering. Before joining RIKEN, he was an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Toyota Technological Institute and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam. His work has been recognized with awards such as the Most Influential Paper of the Decade at MVA, Best Student Paper Award at FG, Best Paper Award at BMVC and the Toyoda Research Achievement Award, reflecting his contributions to intelligent vehicles and multimodal robotics.